Bert Monroy: A digital Artist paints with light
January 17 - April 5, 2009
I consider myself a hyper-realist artist. I love to paint. I use the word paint for lack of a better word. My medium is actually light. I have a passion for making things happen on the screen. Finding a new way of doing something and finding a new room in my imagination is what I love about the work.
Noted digital artist, author and lecturer, Bert Monroy has taught digital art, and inspired countless numbers of people worldwide. A first-generation American, born to immigrant parents of Columbian and Mexican descent and raised in the projects in Brooklyn, Monroy spent 20 years in the advertising industry as an art director and creative director for various agencies as well as his own.
Upon discovering computers with the introduction of the Macintosh 128 in 1984, he embarked on a new digital career. He embraced the computer as an artistic medium and is considered to be one of the pioneers of digital art and one of the foremost digital painters working today. The 50 astonishing, hyper-realist, digital art pieces on view represent the last twenty-five years of his career.
As an accomplished teacher and lecturer, Monroy has served on the faculties of several well-known institutions and is currently on the faculty of San Francisco State University.
Never forgetting his roots, he volunteers as a motivational speaker in inter-city, Bay Area high schools where he shares his passion for digital painting. Bert also teaches a roster of corporate clients, including Pixar, Disney Animation and Lockheed/Martin. Monroy is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team and has been inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. He has written many books and writes a monthly column for two magazines. In addition to his teaching and writing, Monroy also appears on television and radio shows. He was a regular on tech TV and now hosts Pixel Perfect with Bert Monroy, a weekly Photoshop podcast for Revision3.com.
His clients include: Apple, Adobe, Disney, Pioneer Electronics, Fujitsu, SONY, AT&T, Chevron and American Express. Bert has also done a considerable amount of film work for Industrial Light & Magic, Pacific Data Images and R/Greenberg Associates For more information please click on the exhibit link.
Sunday, January 18, 2 p.m., using software as his brush and canvas, Monroy will offer a public Photoshop demonstration in the Soda Activity Center, followed by a reception in honor of the artist.
